Today's Tids Issue 4,980
Still Insular:
There is a lot of murmuring going around about a possible Islamic attack centered around the 20th anniversary of the 911 horror. I don’t think anything will happen.
Today is National Waffle Day. Does that have something to do with politicians?
Unlike cable news, the Tids editorial staff just can’t repeat over and over again the elements of the Afghan screwup and potential resulting tragedy. I think most people grasped the idea of the immensity of the problem right at the beginning. I guess the humor of it all were the spinmeisters stumbling over each other trying to deny that anything went wrong.
I believe strongly in individual freedoms. But I also believe that vaccinating people will eventually end the assault of those mutating microscopic infectious bullies. This is a classic case of something making sense and tat polcictis shouldhaveothignto do withtit.
I have a dilemma. RI is subject to outages in storms because of trees and wires not meshing well in high wind conditions. Now, I also like the idea of heavily treed neighborhoods and boulevards, but people who have to sit in the dark for several days probably are losing their feeling for pastoral tranquility. They may initially rally for momentary hysterical reaction to rapidly chop down trees. But burying the lines would certainly be a delightful compromising answer. That is, until the cost estimates came in. Befuddlement! I’m just raising this question. I don’t have an answer because right now the quixotic side of me is resisting a rush to practicality, and pushing for shady lanes and babbling brooks.
The Question:
1,942 years ago today, Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed two prosperous Roman cities. One was Pompeii. What was the other city.
The Headlines:
--Stock Markets Open Higher. Good Earnings Still Pushing Markets Into Positive Territory; “Reopening” Industries Lieke Airlines, Theme Parks and Cruise Lines Providing Some Optimism.
--Biden Says No Extension Of August 31 Deadline After Taliban Threats; Evac Miission Expected To Be Stepped Up; CIA Director William Burns Had Met With Taliban Leader Abdul Ghani Baradar Most Likely About Extending August 31 Deadline.
--Moderate Dems Holding Up Biden Budget Plan.
--Taliban Stopping Refugees On Way To Kabul Airport.
--Cuomo Leaves Office: Kathy Hochul New Governor Of New York.
--Peloton To Relaunch Safer Treadmill.
--Stranded Americans Making Urgent Pleas For Assistance To Get Them The Hell Out Of Afghanistan.
Good news!! I just had the opportunity to taste “Market Basket’s Crunchy Cheese Sticks (AKA Imitation Cheetos Treats) The flavor was amazing and they are cheaper. Who says I’m not a progressive.
Every other month or two I actually have a vegetable that tastes good*. This week it was seriously delicious green beans from my daughter’s s cultivated with love garden. I have to say they were quite amazing. For a vegetable. *Corn on the Cob during this month up here always tastes good. But I don’t think Vegetarians consider CotC a veritable simply because it does taste good.
Bitcoin (And phantom cash siblings) ain’t dead yet. How it works is beyond my intellect, logic and common sense, but it will become a standard of exchange someday at some level. Many aspects of our current morphing culture seem to be gravitating towards a foundationless society, so why not money. Oh wait, we are already printing trillions without an economic basis
Giant tortoise lovers are aghast now that scientists have shown them eating baby birds. Nature isn’t cuddly place. Animals eat each other all of the time. Vegetables scream when they are picked. There’s no way around it. It’s man eat man, Tortoise eat canary. It’s Venus Fly Trap eat bugs.
To Zoom or to Cubby, that is the question. Employers would like to see live bodies in their expensive real estate. Zoom seemed to work for some and may still for some elements of a business society, but the synergy of smart employees running into each other in carpeted hallways seems to be lacking, and a certain amount of vitality is being lost.
White Lotus has been an awful steaming series program to watch. Maybe even more of an insult was that I forced myself to stay with it because the opening scene promised something in which in the finale turned out to be a complete sham. The ending, which supposedly TV Nation a was all abuzz about, was absolutely terrible. What a waste.
A lot of movies and series I see on these streaming channels are indicative of Humans racing rapidly towards a society with no moral boundaries or civil responsibility. Or that is what a handful of Hollywood directors see in their narrow image of a society that strive for… or want to normalize to.
The Answer:
Hurculaneum was a favorite summer place for rich Romans. Its population of 5,000 was destroyed. The anger of Vesuvius is mainly remembered in the utter destruction of Pompeii, a broad based city of about 20,000 involved in Mercantile, manufacturing and farming. In a recent excavation, gambling artifacts were found in Herculaneum and a brothel unearthed in Pompeii. Maybe it could become a Netflix or HBO series.
Some days when I look back at what I wrote in the Tids, the only conclusion I can come with is, The world is weird.
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